yurinka
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EVO has audiences of hundreds of thousands. Same goes with the top players combined. Biggest tournaments of other genres have several millions of audiences. Huge audiences of a very targeted audience are super valuable for marketing. In this case, this is why all fighting game devs/publishers traditionally made big announcements at the EVO finals. It's like the fighting game Superbowl.Do everyday people even care about esports? It seems like a weird money laundering thing. The only people that care about it seem to be the people competing and the marketers.
disclaimer: old man opinions
Yes, exclusive fighting games. This is why fighting games fans play on PlayStation instead of in Xbox. So this is why tournaments are played on PlayStation. And why Sony buys the biggest fighting game tournament.Seems they just buy what MS doesn't want
Sony has been funding fighting games event for a while puttting money for prize pools here and there, making online tournaments of the main ones, etc.Gaikai and Onlive were, first of all, bought to increase and evolve PSNow with their infrastructure and know how.
So after game streaming and virtual reality, Sony is now investing in e-sports _ expanding once again their gaming services (they're probably in on everything right now) _ don't know how can anyone see this negatively or as a trolling worth buying/business decision.
As an example, for SFV in addition to partly fund the game development, Sony gave Capcom half a million dollars on top of that for the SFV eSports prize pools and hosted the Capcom Cup (yearly finals of SFV eSports) at their PlayStation Experience (or whatever was called) event.
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